Cops continue to investigate reported assault on bike trail

UPDATE: Police said Friday morning that the alleged attack didn’t occur as originally reported. “Detectives are continuing to work with the juvenile and the family to get to the bottom of the initial allegations,” Brick police said in a statement.

The public should be made aware that there was never any threat to public safety.

Brick police are looking for a man who attacked a 16-year-old riding his bicycle along a trail Thursday afternoon, knocked him to the ground and beat him with an “unknown weapon.”

The teen told police the attack took place around 2:45 p.m. on the trails in the wooded area between Jackson Avenue and the Police Athletic League building on Drum Point Road.

A man was walking in the same direction as the teenager was riding. As the teen pedaled toward the man on the path he said, “excuse me."

Without warning, the man then knocked the 16-year-old to the ground and began hitting him, according to police.